To the extent that we are how we spend our time, here's a bit more about me in recent years:

  • My Life as a Quant by Emanuel Derman
  • The Cabinet by Kim Un-Su
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  • The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi
  • Move by Parag Khanna
  • The State of Affairs by Esther Perel
  • Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
  • The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier
  • The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
  • Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
  • The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
  • Magdalena by Wade Davis
  • Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
  • The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
  • The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel
  • Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  • In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
  • The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori
  • Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
  • The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
  • The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
  • Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday
  • Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
  • Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  • The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
  • Ikigai by Héctor Garcia and Francesc Mirales
  • Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
  • The Pendulum by Julie Lindahl
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel
  • Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
  • A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism by Phyllis Goldstein
  • Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories by Gregor von Rezzori
  • Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
  • Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Robert D. Kaplan
  • The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  • Talking to Strangers by Malcom Gladwell
  • Superhuman by Habit by Tynan
  • The Next 100 Years by George Friedman
  • AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee
  • Hello World by Hannah Fry
  • The Pope of Physics by Gino Segre & Bettina Hoerlin
  • Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea by Robert D. Kaplan
  • Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
  • The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan
  • In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
  • Fantastic Night by Stefan Zweig
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  • The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
  • Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
  • Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
  • In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
  • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
  • Survivors in Mexico by Rebecca West
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
  • The Mind of the South by W.J. Cash
  • The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
  • The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
  • Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World by Rick Falkvinge
  • The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat
  • On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
  • The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
  • A Brief History of Mathematical Thought by Luke Heaton
  • Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel
  • The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin
  • Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  • Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain
  • The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl
  • Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner & E. Glen Weyl
  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  • We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
  • Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
  • Propaganda by Edward Bernays
  • Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
  • You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn
  • No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • The Post-American World 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria
  • The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith
  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
  • Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
  • Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
  • All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
  • The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky
  • Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
  • The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership by Richard Branson
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
  • The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
  • Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
  • Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill
  • Tribe by Sebastian Junger
  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
  • The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
  • The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

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